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Updated: June 3, 2025
There was to be no bungling about the business he had in hand, no mistakes and no wasting of lives. The mandolin tinkled and the guitar strummed vigorously as they neared Scutari point, vast, black and forbidding in the starlight. But a gloom had settled upon the party which nothing could dispel.
And in any case, of course, I should have had to go on Monday to the dressmaker." Richard strummed on the keys, but Elly stood with both arms resting on the piano, gazing at her aunt with a look almost of terror. "Whatever is the matter with you?" asked Bertha involuntarily. "Why do you ask that?" said Elly.
The latter had ferreted out a three-corded guitar which was in the hut, and strummed away at the same tune for hours together no doubt to the great pleasure of the boy, although to us it was quite the reverse. At last our bedding was unrolled, and I enjoined repose on all. Gringalet couched down in the hut, at the feet of his young master.
If there were a dryad or other such nimble creature on the street, she would come leaping as though Orpheus strummed a tune, but the dance is too fast for our languid northern feet. Nowhere are apples redder than on a cart. Our hearts go out to Adam in the hour of his temptation. I know one lady of otherwise careful appetite who even leans toward dates if she may buy them from a cart.
He strummed on the windows of the carriage, saw the fields and woods fly past, smoked a cigarette or two, took his bag from the rack, at last arrived at the station and got out. Close to the tiny station he recognized the inn of which the abbé had told him. He found a good woman in the kitchen who said, "All right, sir, sit down, they will put the horse to while you breakfast."
Passing into the corridor, and hearing the piano's notes in the mess-room he glanced inside. It was a rest period between drills, and a soldier seated at the instrument strummed his way through the air of a mournful ditty. It's an odd thing that when the average soldier is wholly cheerful he prefers the "sobful" melodies.
Having no bow with which to scrape the strings, he said that they could only be strummed with the finger and thumb, and when he offered to teach one of us thus to handle it, there were many candidates for the place, which in the end fell to a man named Winslow.
But the colonial girl is sharper at picking up what her mistress does know than the English one, and she has more of the boy's emulation. Whatever her station in life, she is bound to strum the piano; but in no country is a good pianoforte player more rare, or do you hear greater trash strummed in a drawing-room.
John Splendid turned into the hall and raised his voice a little, to say with no evidence of disturbance "There's something amiss up the glens, your ladyship." The harp her ladyship strummed idly on at the moment had stopped on a ludicrous and unfinished note, the hum of conversation ended abruptly.
Then Carroll recalled a particularly good college joke he knew and he told it well. After which Evelyn explained to Charley that Mr. Carroll was the wonderfulest piano player in the world and David Carroll, detective, strummed out several popular airs while the youngsters danced. Horrible as the situation was, it appealed irresistibly to his sense of humor. He found himself almost enjoying it.
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